I have always found it cumbersome to generate a table-like overview over group-wise descriptive stats out of panel/structured data in EVIEWS.

The program below generates a workfile with two variables x and y in a panel design in the page "panel" and a corresponding pool structure in the page "pool".

How can I quickly obtain a tabular presentation of some descriptive statistics, e.g., the mean, of the expression x/y for each of the cross sections, and perhaps also over two different samples, for example the samples s1 and s2 - either in the panel or in the pool structure?

Obviously, a longer program can do this, but could such a basic and often-needed task of data examination also be achieved faster with one to two command lines? Or is there an add-on around which would do the job?

(So, I am missing kind of the powerful and user-friendly "tabulate" command and by-group statistics as implemented in a well-known competitor of EVIEWS.)